Shloka 9
Kīṭopākhyāna: Prajā-pālana as Kṣatra-vrata and the Attainment of Brāhmaṇya
शुक्राच्च तात सम्भूतिर्मांसस्येह न संशय: । भक्षणे तु महान् दोषो निवृत्त्या पुण्यमुच्यते
śukrāc ca tāta sambhūtir māṁsasy eha na saṁśayaḥ | bhakṣaṇe tu mahān doṣo nivṛttyā puṇyam ucyate, tāta ||
بیٹے، اس میں کوئی شک نہیں کہ گوشت کی پیدائش منی سے ہوتی ہے۔ مگر گوشت کھانا بڑا اخلاقی عیب ہے؛ اس لیے اس سے باز رہنے ہی میں ثواب بتایا گیا ہے، فرزند۔
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Meat-eating is presented as ethically blameworthy (doṣa), and abstaining from it (nivṛtti) is praised as a source of religious merit (puṇya).
In the Anuśāsana Parva’s instruction on dharma, Bhīṣma addresses a listener as “tāta” and argues against meat consumption, grounding the admonition in a view of meat’s bodily origin and concluding that virtue lies in refraining.